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The executive producer of new Channel 4 documentary series Three Wives, One Husband tells us what it was like to film fundamentalist Mormons for a year. Some forty years ago, in the desert just south of Moab, Utah, dynamite was used to blast caves into a sandstone cliff, leaving space to carve modern homes into the rock, and Rockland Ranch was born. Rockland Ranch was founded in the s by a man named Bob Foster to create a safe space for a community of fundamentalist Mormons.

It also houses three and a half years worth of pickled and jarred food for seven families adding up to about people including all the children in case the apocalypse strikes. Three Wives, One Husband is a new lid-lifting Channel 4 documentary which introduces us to the descendants of The Rock founder Bob Foster, and four other Mormon families. Hence all of the aforementioned pickles.

The footage in the first episode of the four-part series is incredibly intimate.

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We meet the Fosters: The cameras catch it all: Executive producer of the series Will Anderson explains that cameras were present at the home birth because Enoch Foster was courting a third wife, and inviting her to witness it acted as a sort of metaphor for how Mormons invite potential wives into their family. To gain the trust of The Rock residents, the film crew visited them three times before filming there for a year. They approached the families at a monthly council meeting, Anderson explains, and got access to five different families with the unanimous consent of the whole community.

Three Wives, One Husband diverts from the stereotype that fundamentalist Mormons are a cult, and is pioneering in the way that it sympathises with a community who get a lot of flack from the media. Anderson explains that for children who grow up at The Rock, polygamy is a point of discussion when they begin dating: It's not like you have to live this way of life.

Not only does the documentary break away from the Mormons-as-cult stereotype, it explores, with an open mind, an alternative to the monogamous society that many of us live in. They're not extreme characters, they've just chosen to organise themselves in a different way.

While The Rock residents may be tuned into popular culture, they do live in the middle of nowhere. How integrated can they really be?

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Anderson explains that many of the Mormon husbands and wives work in Moab, the nearest town. They do the mail route and deliver post, one of them has a tiling business, one of the wives works in a bank and another is training to be a nurse in the local hospital. In terms of the children, about half are educated at the local state school, the other half are home-schooled.

Watching the documentary, though, it is hard not to wonder why the wives put themselves through the polygamist life. Three Wives, One Husband is breaking the mould in that it seeks to understand polygamy, rather than send in the pitchforks. It is undoubtedly an uncomfortable watch at times — but at the same time extremely engrossing and oddly uplifting. Three Wives, One Husband begins tonight at 9pm on Channel 4. In this ground-breaking book, Dr.

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